Kalymnos the island of the fishermen with a lot of sponge – factories to be visited. Pserimos the island with its crystal waters and nice sandy beach.
Our M/S Sevimar L. departs at 10:00 from Kos harbor, arriving Pserimos at 11:00. Plenty of time for sunbathing and swimming in the island’s clear and warm waters. At 12:30 departure to Kalymnos. Arrival on Kalymnos at 13:00. Plenty of time for visiting the sponge factories, lunch at the tavern, the Sponge Diver’s Museum, walk and sit at the sea front shops – cafeterias.

Departure to Krevatia beach at 15:45 arriving at 16:30. One Hour stay for the last swim from the boat. Departure at 17:30 and arriving on Kos at 18:00 aprox. Bar, music on board, snorkeling equipments available.

About Kalymnos:
Sponge fishing has been carried out in Greece since time immemorial. The use of sponges was described by Aristotle and mentioned in both Homer’s Iliad and the Odyssey. For centuries now the Greek sponge trade has focused around Dodecanese, with one indisputable epicenter – Kalymnos, the sponge diver’s island. Finding sponges, diving to harvest them from the ocean bed and selling them throughout the world is a commerce in which Kalymnos has excelled.
For the last 50 years, this island has been the only place in Greece to maintain a fleet of sponge diving boats and the country’s national diving school is based on its shores. Little wonder that sponges have been called ‘The Kalymnian Gold’. But sponge diving represents much more even than this. It is a skill, a challenge, a saga of loss and gain, of appalling tragedy and fierce pride that remain to this day a poignant and inextricable part of the very soul of this rugged island. To know this story is to understand something of the essence of Kalymnos and its people.